After the rocket artillery was launched, the heavier artillery was also ready to be fired, and it also began to fire forward, either with solid bullets, or with chain bullets, or even grapeshot bullets, which also fell among the artillery and spear-carrying troops, focusing on attacking these long-range troops that the Qing army did not have much, and then extended back to attack the cold weapon troops behind.

According to the habits of the cold weapon troops in the feudal era, the distance between people in the Qing military phalanx was very close, and what was even worse was that the distance between the phalanx and the phalanx was also very close, which was a customary rule made in order to prevent the army.

However, this made the lethality of each shell several times higher, and one cannon could attack multiple phalanxes at the same time, which was very conducive to Li Xian's artillery to give full play to its advantages from beginning to end.

The forward troops placed at the forefront of the six princes did not even get close to Li Xian's main formation, and suffered heavy casualties under a burst of artillery attack, and then collapsed directly, and the soldiers were killed and wounded, and fled in all directions, so that Li Xian's original arranged musketeers were useless.

It stands to reason that the Sixth Prince has also been in contact with military artillery many times and has some understanding of its power, but he did not consider this factor when arranging the troops, but stubbornly discharged the formation that was most difficult to protect the artillery according to the guidance in the textbook, and then caused his own side to suffer incredible losses.

However, this can't all be blamed on the dogma of the Six Princes, according to the history of Li Xian's own world, until the eighties of the nineteenth century after the fall of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing army officers still liked to arrange formations like the Six Princes when they encountered the French army and other European armies, and after being defeated, they also blamed their subordinates for not working hard.

Li Xian carefully observed the battle situation, and after seeing that the front ranks of the Six Princes easily collapsed, he felt that the current tactics were very good and there was no need to change, so he commanded the army to continue to advance according to the previous pattern.

That is, the musketeers marched forward in a long horizontal column to stop the Qing advance to protect the artillery, while the artillerymen quickly built batteries behind the musketeers to eliminate any enemy who came into the range of the artillery.

When there was no enemy within the effective range who dared to resist, the musketeers continued to advance, and the artillerymen also pushed the gun wagons to follow, repeating the previous maneuver again.

After all, the sixth prince was young, and when he saw that his army kept collapsing and fleeing, he panicked, and his mind was blank for a while, and he didn't know whether to order a change in formation, or to withdraw his troops and retreat to one place and reorganize his troops for battle.

The six princes did not issue new orders, and the generals of the Qing army could only continue to advance according to the previous orders, of course, there were also particularly timid generals who turned around and fled with their soldiers, or were pressed and beheaded by the law enforcement team, or instead attacked their own own formation, in short, there were all kinds of people.

As for Li Xian's side, he resolutely pushed forward, no matter what happened in front of him, he stopped after reaching the designated position, and then the artillery fired a burst, and then advanced again, and so on.

The number of troops reaching 60,000 is actually quite a lot, and it is really boundless to be arranged, and it is worth carefully describing the huge number of troops in the history books.

It's just that under the advancement of Li Xian's army, this bit of strength is useless at all, and he can't even delay the advance of Li Xian's army, he just stupidly advances a little and retreats.

The two sides don't know how long they fought, and the Qing army finally collapsed, knowing that there was no second possibility except for a tragic death, from generals, officers to ordinary soldiers began to turn around and flee, even the law enforcement team that was supposed to maintain military discipline was also throwing down their weapons and running away.

The sixth prince felt dizzy in his brain for a while, and wanted to say something, but he couldn't make any sound, as if his whole head was groggy and fell into a state of confusion.

Fortunately, he still has loyal people under him, and there are many capable people, as soon as he saw that the situation was not right, a few guards with high martial arts stepped forward, led the tall horses of the six princes and ran back, and a few routs inadvertently blocked the way, and were also quickly killed by these guards who were suspected of being above the third order, and they couldn't stop the six princes in the slightest.

It's just that when the six princes left, the banner of the Chinese army also ran back, and this time the Qing army lost the slightest morale, and they all began to run back, and no one cared about anyone.

Li Xian was not in a hurry or impatient, and led the troops to advance slowly, from the area of Niulangang to the outside of Guangzhou, and found that the Sifang Fort had long been empty, and countless routs fled to the gate of Guangzhou and desperately smashed the door, wanting the adults in Guangzhou to open the door and let people in.

However, the officials of Guangzhou City saw clearly that the official army was defeated, and the Sanyuanli coalition army was chasing after them closely, how could they dare to open the door and let people in, and let Li Xian's troops take the opportunity to attack the city, that is, everything would be over.

Even the six princes, who were high and powerful, were also pulled up by the people in the city who fell from the bamboo basket, instead of opening the door and putting it in, let alone others.

Some of the routs were desperate, drew their weapons and slashed and slaughtered, and fought outside the city gates, needless to say.

When Li Xian arrived, he understood that the British army had already withdrawn by boat, the Sifang Fort was empty, and the main force of the provincial army led by the Six Princes was also eliminated or captured.

At this time, no one or any force could stop the Sanyuanli coalition army led by Li Xian from occupying Guangzhou, thinking of this, Li Xian was a little stupid for a while.

However, Li Xian was also cautious in using his troops, and did not rush to attack the city, but sent troops to occupy the Sifang Fort first, establish a solid forward base, and then plot against Guangzhou.

The rout soldiers who rushed to the north gate of Guangzhou fought each other in despair, and finally somehow calmed down again, and when Li Xian sent troops to surrender, they saw the hope of life again one by one, and hurriedly surrendered to the Sanyuanli coalition army, and let Li Xian send people to properly contain them.

Li Xian ran to the top of the Sifang Fort to look at Guangzhou City, and Xuan Zheng, the master of the Sanyuan Temple, appeared beside him and looked at Guangzhou City together.

"At this moment, the city of Guangzhou is about to fall into our grasp.

Even if Sun Wu is resurrected and Qing Taizu is alive, it can't stop us from occupying the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River. Xuan Zheng said dreamingly.

Li Xian and Xuan were at the forefront of the Quartet, and behind them, Wang Jiuxuan, Qin Rigang, Exterminating Shitai, Yue Bufan, Lin Zhennan, Qiao Daqing, Yang Tianming, Zuo Shaoqing, Lin Pingzhi, Ling Huzhan, Wu Sanniang, Meng Shenggu, Xie Yingnan, Yue Shanshan, Zhao Hujiang, Qian Dafu, Wang Xiaoming, Hai Dagui, Chen Guangsheng, Ma Daha and other warriors and officers silently came behind them and looked at Guangzhou City together.

"It's not the best time to take Guangzhou. Li Xian sighed and said.

"There are more than 2 million people in Guangzhou, which is too much, and the amount of food needed to feed these people is sky-high, and a large amount of grain needs to be imported from Hubei to Guangxi.

After we occupy Guangzhou, this grain route will inevitably be cut off, and we will have to rely on ourselves to feed these two million people, and the burden will not be small.

What's more, our troops are mainly poor peasants, fishermen and hunters, and once they enter the big cities, they may be quickly corrupted, resulting in a great reduction in combat effectiveness, which is not good.

Moreover, the British are still eyeing the periphery, and we have more Guangzhou, but there are more layers of burden, and it is possible that the British will be able to hold it, so it is not very cost-effective.

Besides, the Qing court is still very powerful, and once Guangzhou is fallen, it will inevitably gather the materials and troops of the whole country to fight back wildly, and it will not be easy to deal with it.

If I could, I would like to keep Guangzhou and occupy only the periphery of Foshan, Dongguan, and Bao'an, so that the Qing court will spend its own materials and manpower to support Guangzhou, while we occupy the vast countryside and develop science and technology and military strength, which will be more beneficial to our development. ”

"Then according to Li Shuai's meaning, this Guangzhou can't be beaten?" Xuan Zheng was expressionless, just looked at Li Xian inquiringly.

"How is that possible. Li Xian overturned all the previous statements in one sentence.

"The arrow has to be sent on the string, and it is time for us to keep Guangzhou and not occupy it.

The order went down and ordered the troops to attack the city of Guangzhou and occupy this great city south of the Yangtze River. ”

"Order!" A very neat shout suddenly came from behind the two, which startled Li Xiandu.

After a series of orders were passed down, the Qing prisoners were pulled aside, the artillery of the Sanyuanli coalition army was mounted on the quadripartite battery, and the infantry slowly advanced and attacked Guangzhou.

After several years of war in Guangzhou, the morale of the people has long been exhausted by the war, and he saw the tens of thousands of troops led by the six princes defeated like a mountain, and knew that Li Xian had always been sympathetic to the people, and if he really wanted to occupy the city, he would never kill innocents indiscriminately, so he had no heart to resist at all.

After the Sanyuanli coalition army began to attack the city, it only lasted for half a day, and the Tiandihui congregation, Mingjiao disciples and gentry forces in the city killed the Qing soldiers who were defending the city under the guidance of the coalition intelligence agency, opened the city gate, and welcomed Li Xian and others in, and finally turned a new page in the troubled Chinese history.

After occupying the city of Guangzhou, Li Xian quickly issued various orders to punish the small people who took advantage of the chaos to loot, maintain law and order in the city, and sent troops to patrol, so that the city quickly restored calm.

Then, after some negotiations, Li Xian and Xuan Zheng and other warriors decided to formally raise troops to resist the Qing Dynasty, but did not launch any country name, but issued the slogan of "Recover China, protect the people", and established the Huaxia Liberation Army, with Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan serving as the commander and deputy marshal respectively, leading the world's heroes to resist the Qing.

After that, the Huaxia Guangfu Army announced that it would accept all the property left by the Qing court, and put all the court officials under house arrest, and that they would be tried publicly, and the officials who had no blood debts would be released, but the officials who had extorted the people and even made blood debts to the coalition forces would be punished, and the illegally obtained property would also be confiscated.

Of course, Li Xian also emphasized that the Huaxia Army does not practice joint sitting, which means that even if the punishment is only involved in the officials themselves, their family members are not among the punishments.

In addition, Li Xian also issued a large number of new laws and regulations covering education, medical care, commerce, transportation, industry, customs, and justice, requiring the change of customs in the areas around Guangzhou and the establishment of a civilized and progressive new China.